Wild onions

We just moved over on this farm property and there are wild onions EVERYWHE
RE! I love picking them and smelling them. They look like normal onions th
at I grow except a little smaller and are white bulbs--Question is, can we
eat them? If so, we will not be needing onions from the store for quite som
etime. Mind you, I have a 16 month old who sometimes eats adult scraps- we
ll, all of the time. Gerber food isn't cutting it for her so she gets baby
portions and i wouldn't forgive myself if I made her sick!

HERE! I love picking them and smelling them. They look like normal onions
that I grow except a little smaller and are white bulbs--Question is, can w
e eat them? If so, we will not be needing onions from the store for quite s
ometime. Mind you, I have a 16 month old who sometimes eats adult scraps-
well, all of the time. Gerber food isn't cutting it for her so she gets ba
by portions and i wouldn't forgive myself if I made her sick!
http://www.foragingtexas.com/2008/08/onion-wild.html
If they smell like onions, they're edible.

it might just be that the place was used to
grow onions and they never got them all out.
i'd love a place like that too. :)
i would not overdo it on any one vegetable for
a child. varied diet is much better and gets
them used to different tastes.
if you make a pan of them and eat that without
problems i doubt you will be in trouble later, but
if you want to be more certain post pictures and
take some whole plants (including flowers) to a
horticultural specialist.
songbird

HERE! I love picking them and smelling them. They look like normal onions
that I grow except a little smaller and are white bulbs--Question is, can w
e eat them? If so, we will not be needing onions from the store for quite s
ometime. Mind you, I have a 16 month old who sometimes eats adult scraps-
well, all of the time. Gerber food isn't cutting it for her so she gets ba
by portions and i wouldn't forgive myself if I made her sick!
Wild onions are very common in the SE USA. They are edible but very strong.
The farmers hate them because cattle will eat them and the milk or butter
is unsaleable.

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